You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.
An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me